单词 | outer bailey |
释义 | > as lemmasouter bailey 2. In later writers: The outer court or base court of a feudal castle; also, either of the two (or three courts) formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences. Hence outer bailey, inner bailey. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > court of castle ward1297 bailc1320 utterwardc1450 utter-court1530 bailey1840 1840 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 22 Bailey..was a name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. i. 17 The royal apartments were not in the keep, but in the court-yard, or bailey. 1862 Luck of Ladysmede I. 93 The entrance-gate..led into a narrow outer bailey. < as lemmas |
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